Portraits in Art

Blind Willie Johnson. Willie Dixon. Ma Rainey. We know their music, and of course we recognise their names, but to their fans the faces of these bl...

Virginia Woolfs many novels, notably Night and Day (1919), Jacobs Room (1922), Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931), ...

To coincide with the bicentenary of Jane Austens death ( and her appearance on English banknotes ) in ...

This beautifully illustrated volume showcases over 70 exquisite pieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art's internationally important collection of B...

A richly illustrated celebration of the paintings of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama From the moment of their unveiling at the...

...perhaps the definitive tome on her life and career. - Nena Hawke, BlackBook ...an important new monograph about Alice Neel, one of the great...

Hans Holbein's famous portrayal of Sir Thomas More is one of the artist's greatest and most popular portraits. In the opening piece of this appeali...

Explores new approaches to portraying identity and the human face and figure, through works from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery''s colle...

Sargent's portraits in charcoal constitute a gallery of the great and the good and the talented, scarcely less remarkable in its range of personali...

Summer in Paris. British art student Adam King undertakes an internship at a contemporary art museum. An encounter with an unusual collective of yo...

Elizabeth Peyton s work has been acclaimed since the early 1990s, when she began exhibiting her intimate portraits of artists, musicians, historica...

In 2016 and 2017, Diana Widmaier-Picasso curated two exhibitions for Gagosian: the first gathered works from the collection of her mother, Maya Rui...

Victoria Crowe is one of the world''s most vital and original figurative painters. Her instantly recognisable work is represented in a large number...

The first book highlighting the historical roots and contemporary implications of the silhouette as an American art formBefore the advent of photog...

A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the reader into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age. Frans Hals was one ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAI...

To commemorate the 100th anniversaryof the birth of one of the most successful actresses and singers in the historyof show business,Hermes Press is...

Catálogo gathers photographs of prostitutes that were provided to the select clients of a brothel and shown to artist Miguel Calderon by his uncle ...

Neo-Impressionism, the style pioneered by Georges Seurat (1859-1891), has long been associated with exquisite landscapes and intriguing scenes of u...

A revelatory study of one of the 18th centurys greatest artists, which places him in relation to the darker side of the English Enlightenment Josep...

Hodgkins art can be seen as providing memorials for people, many of whom are friends, whose absence is countered by th e corresponding physical p...

The first in-depth exploration of the rise and evolution of abstract, symbolic, and conceptual portraiture in American art This groundbreaking book...

A presentation of Eric Kennington's powerful, poignant and unforgettable portraits of soldiers of the Second World War in charcoal and pastel. The...

`Look at people and their pets today. Pets tell something about their owners, whether they are bought to make a fashion statement, as child substit...

Apart from a handful of art historians no one has ever heard of the Brussels painter Hendrick De Clerck (1560-1630). Nevertheless, De Clerck was a...

Originally published in 1930 in an edition of 100 copies, Gertrude Steins Dix Portraits pairs her singular literary style with original lithographs...

Russian portraiture enjoyed a golden age between the late 1860s and the First World War. While Tolstoy and Dostoevsky were publishing masterpieces ...